Documentary
Supported by progressive social movements, designating efforts to preserve and chronicle the history of social organizations and the activities they engage in, as well as the social problems and situations that emerge. Photographs were used in a variety of ways by social documentary movements, such as the Mass Observation project of 1930s Britain, with essays, diaries, interviews, sound recordings, and a sophisticated incorporation of the same in film.
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